Get active OmniFocus projects via shortcuts

Automation OmniFocus Automation
#1

Hello,

I am trying to list all active projects from my database and save them to a note as a type of overview/status board. I thought I could achieve this easily via iOS/iPadOS shortcuts, but its trickier than I thought:

  • „Find Projects“ only allows me to search by project name
  • „Find Items“ only allows me to find available items, but doesn’t allow me to filter by folder.

Is there a way around this? Have tried experimenting with „Get Database Omni Result“, but to no avail. Will I have to start learning Scripting for this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

#2

You’re right. It’s not currently possible to accomplish what you want only using Shortcuts. If you already know JavaScript, the learning curse should be smoother.

In OmniFocus Omni-Automation API, there is Project.Status Class:

  • Active (Project.Status r/o)
  • Done (Project.Status r/o)
  • Dropped (Project.Status r/o)
  • OnHold (Project.Status r/o)
  • all (Array of Project.Status r/o) • An array of all items of this enumeration.

You could in principle filter all the projects in the database with Project.Status.Active as the value of its property .status.

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#3

Thanks for the info, and the pointer towards the project.status class! Well, I’ll have to start some baby steps towards scripting.

#4

@Flobach, you’re welcome and do ask if any doubt arises.

This should get you started:

// Paste it in Automation Console...
(() => {
    const main = () => {
        return flattenedProjects
            .filter(x => Project.Status.Active === x.status)
            .map(x => x.name)
            .join("\n")
    };
    return main();
})();

It should output the name of each one of your active projects, separated by a new line character "\n".

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#5

Find Projects without argument gives you all active projects. Here’s an example for OF4: Get All Projects shortcut